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David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist by Johann Zoffany (c. 1770). The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson.First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
"The Alchemist" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1908, when Lovecraft was 17 or 18, and first published in the November 1916 issue of the United Amateur . [ 1 ]
The Alchemist, by Cornelis Pieterszoon Bega Thomas Charnock (1524/1526–1581) was an English alchemist and who devoted his life to the quest for the Philosopher's Stone . [ 1 ] His unpublished notebooks are useful, not just for an understanding of Elizabethan attitudes towards alchemy in general, but for the insight they give to Charnock's ...
Sir Edward Kelley [a] or Kelly, also known as Edward Talbot (UK: / ˈ t ɔː l b ə t /; 1 August 1555 – 1597/8), [1] was an English Renaissance occultist and scryer.He is known for working with John Dee in his magical investigations.
Burchard of Bellevaux (c. 1100-1165) was a Cistercian monk and author who was known for his work Apologia de barbis (A Defense of Beards).A student of the Cistercian reformer Bernard of Clairvaux, in 1136, he became abbot of the monastery of Balerne [], a Benedictine monastery that adopted the Cistercian reforms. [1]
De casibus is an encyclopedia of historical biography and a part of the classical tradition of historiography.It deals with the fortunes and calamities of famous people starting with the biblical Adam, going to mythological and ancient people, then to people of Boccaccio's own time in the fourteenth century. [1]
The find could spell out why Brahe’s medicines were so popular. These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...
The Alchemist, 1663 Young Couple in a Tavern, by Cornelis Bega. Oil on canvas, 1661, Hallwyl Museum. Cornelis Pietersz Bega, or Cornelis Pietersz Begijn (1631/32 – 27 August 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. Bega was born, lived and worked in Haarlem and was the son of sculptor and goldsmith Pieter Jansz. Begijn.